Johnnyboy1129
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hello all I am curious in the go SMS app folder there is a folder called bigmms how do pictures end up in this folder and why
Thanks in advance for the help
John
Thanks in advance for the help
John
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Not used that app for years (app kept becoming more bloated and Go themselves became more spammy, so I ditched all of their apps).
Are these pictures that you have sent or received? That would be the obvious guess. If they are images which you've neither received nor sent, are they possibly related to Go themes?
Are these pictures that you have sent or received? That would be the obvious guess. If they are images which you've neither received nor sent, are they possibly related to Go themes?
Johnnyboy1129
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That is what I'm trying to figure out they are pictures that have been taken by the camera but I don't understand how they would end up in this folder
So you've taken the pictures, not sent them via the app, yet they've ended up in a Go folder?
Is it all pictures you've taken since some date, or just some of them? I don't know the answer, so just trying to guess what the connections between the images might be, but if it was everything taken after some date it would suggest that the app had started collecting copies of all shots taken (which would at least be simple to understand).
Also, are these copies of the images (so you have another copy in your camera folder), or links (which you could find out using a file explorer and looking at the details/properties), or reduced resolution copies (smaller than the originals)? I assume you didn't open the camera from Go SMS when you took them?
Is it all pictures you've taken since some date, or just some of them? I don't know the answer, so just trying to guess what the connections between the images might be, but if it was everything taken after some date it would suggest that the app had started collecting copies of all shots taken (which would at least be simple to understand).
Also, are these copies of the images (so you have another copy in your camera folder), or links (which you could find out using a file explorer and looking at the details/properties), or reduced resolution copies (smaller than the originals)? I assume you didn't open the camera from Go SMS when you took them?
Johnnyboy1129
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there is no copy at all in the gallery under any folder in there but only in the go sms root folder under BIGMMS folder that would say to me that the image was sent through go sms app ?????
Sounds that way. Are these images you took while using Go SMS (i.e. took specifically to send as MMS)? If you just open the camera now and take an image does that go to the normal location or the BIGMMS folder?
I did a little experiment and installed the app myself. It didn't create a BIGMMS folder for me, though it did fill its folder with a lot of strange and unexpected things, including a copy of my framework-res.apk and a huge amount of java stuff in GOSMS/.temp/mms. I took a few photos, including one from Go SMS itself, and all went to the normal folder. However, I didn't actually send anything as MMS using it, so maybe that would have changed the behaviour.
I did a little experiment and installed the app myself. It didn't create a BIGMMS folder for me, though it did fill its folder with a lot of strange and unexpected things, including a copy of my framework-res.apk and a huge amount of java stuff in GOSMS/.temp/mms. I took a few photos, including one from Go SMS itself, and all went to the normal folder. However, I didn't actually send anything as MMS using it, so maybe that would have changed the behaviour.
Johnnyboy1129
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is there anyway you could test sending a picture from go sms in two ways
first with attaching the image to the message already taken from your camera gallery and second from taking the picture from within the go sms app to see when it is added to the big mms folder, my situation is a weird one that im trying to figure out on a different phone that is not mine and I cant test it myself, without the person knowing im checking.
first with attaching the image to the message already taken from your camera gallery and second from taking the picture from within the go sms app to see when it is added to the big mms folder, my situation is a weird one that im trying to figure out on a different phone that is not mine and I cant test it myself, without the person knowing im checking.
As it happens I had an MMS in my outbox which hadn't sent, so just resent it using Go. As far as I can tell it went, but I still don't have a BIGMMS folder.
Tried sending a photo taken from within Go (i.e. opening the camera app from the message composition screen), but don't think that worked - although I'd told Go what size image it could send, it didn't seem smart enough to shrink the image to fit. As MMS are relatively expensive for me (I send less than 1 per year, so not a priority in tariff choice) I decided that I wouldn't make multiple attempts to get it to send.
However, none of this resulted in creating a BIGMMS folder on my device (in any of the 2 open and 1 hidden folders that Go had created). I've now uninstalled Go, got rid of the folders it created, and reverted to Chomp (which I'm using at the moment, though I think its little brother Textra is better for MMS).
Tried sending a photo taken from within Go (i.e. opening the camera app from the message composition screen), but don't think that worked - although I'd told Go what size image it could send, it didn't seem smart enough to shrink the image to fit. As MMS are relatively expensive for me (I send less than 1 per year, so not a priority in tariff choice) I decided that I wouldn't make multiple attempts to get it to send.
However, none of this resulted in creating a BIGMMS folder on my device (in any of the 2 open and 1 hidden folders that Go had created). I've now uninstalled Go, got rid of the folders it created, and reverted to Chomp (which I'm using at the moment, though I think its little brother Textra is better for MMS).